Ephesians 5:11

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ μὴ συγκοινωνεῖτε τοῖς ἔργοις τοῖς ἀκάρποις τοῦ σκότους, μᾶλλον δὲ καὶ ἐλέγχετε.

Transliteration

And mē sygkoinōneite the ergois the akarpois of the skotous, mallon de also elenchete

Grammar Details

• *mē*: negative particle - not
• *sygkoinōneite*: present imperative, active, 2nd plural - participate with/take part in [continuous command]
• *ergois*: dative, neuter, plural - works/deeds
• *akarpois*: dative, neuter, plural - unfruitful/barren
• *skotous*: genitive, neuter, singular - of darkness
• *mallon*: adverb, comparative - rather/instead
• *de*: conjunction - but/and
• *elenchete*: present imperative, active, 2nd plural - expose/reprove [continuous command]

Word Meanings

• *sygkoinōneite*: participate with/have fellowship with/partake in
• *ergois*: works/deeds/activities
• *akarpois*: unfruitful/barren/useless
• *skotous*: darkness/obscurity
• *mallon*: rather/instead/more
• *elenchete*: expose/reprove/refute/convict

Referenced Verses

• Rom 13:12 : 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
• 1 Tim 5:20 : 20 Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
• 2 Thess 3:6 : 6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
• Rom 6:21 : 21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
• Rom 16:17 : 17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
• Titus 2:15 : 15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
• 2 John 1:10-11 : 10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: 11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
• Rev 18:4 : 4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye ceive not of her plagues.
• 2 Tim 3:5 : 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
• 2 Tim 4:2 : 2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
• Lev 19:17 : 17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
• 2 Cor 6:14-18 : 14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, 18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
• Gal 6:8 : 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
• 2 Thess 3:14 : 14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
• 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
• 1 Thess 5:7 : 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
• Gen 20:16 : 16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved.
• Eph 4:22 : 22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
• 1 Cor 5:9-9 : 9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
• 1 Cor 10:20-21 : 20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. 21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
• Job 24:13-17 : 13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. 14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. 15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face. 16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light. 17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
• Ps 1:1-2 : 1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
• Ps 26:4-5 : 4 I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers. 5 I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
• Ps 94:20-21 : 20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law? 21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
• Ps 141:5 : 5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
• Prov 1:31 : 31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
• Prov 4:14-15 : 14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. 15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
• Prov 9:6-8 : 6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding. 7 He that reoveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot. 8 Reove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
• Prov 13:18 : 18 Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reoof shall be honoured.
• Prov 15:12 : 12 A scorner loveth not one that reoveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.
• Prov 19:25 : 25 Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
• Prov 25:12 : 12 As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reover upon an obedient ear.
• Prov 29:1 : 1 He, that being often reoved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
• Isa 3:10-11 : 10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
• Isa 29:21 : 21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
• Jer 15:17 : 17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
• Matt 18:15 : 15 Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
• Luke 3:19 : 19 But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,
• John 3:19-21 : 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
• Rom 1:22-32 : 22 Pfessing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness thugh the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their err which was meet. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a repbate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, pud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
• Eph 5:7 : 7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
• Gen 49:5-7 : 5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. 6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anr they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digd down a wall. 7 Cursed be their anr, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.